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Time passes, with milestones
Jan. 20th, 2021 10:35 pmI like the US news headlines today. Those look hopeful. It's nice.
I am not so much liking any headline with a number in it, but, the ones about the vaccine are at least going in the right direction.
I have lately fallen into reading fic of Blue Beetle/Booster Gold, who I have been a fan of for so long they were on the cover of the first comic I remember buying. Canon has not always been kind to them. But in fanfic they get time to get older and cope with middle aged problems and just hang out with their friends, all of whom are alive for reasons that dont need exploring at this juncture. It's a big multiverse. Everybody lives.
It is a whole bunch of feels reading all of that. There is one I read last night where Beetle gets a heart operation and Booster looks after him. Another about that time Booster was on life support and Beetle looked after him. And one with a whole big argument about that time Superman died and the guys were both badly hurt.
... fanfic tends to add the comfort to the hurt/comfort equation canon starts.
I dont know why I'm finding it compelling to read about people the story dismissed as small time also rans having people sized problems with world shaking epic sized problems going on in the background.
... okay, phrased like that I maybe do.
It's kind of depressing when the chance to support each other through major surgery counts as a chance at happily ever after, but, *waves vaguely at canon*.
But then I really lost track of what canon thinks of them lately anyway. I mean I have 'Heroes in Crisis' but I dont know how it fits in with anything.
I feel like by now my fav characters should be, like, maybe fifty? Little bit less? Like they were always older than me but not older-older.
And then their next gens could be wearing the name because maybe the olders dont want to get beat up quite as often these days?
There could be a multi generation history and everyone growing into their own accomplishments without having to erase anyone else.
In fanfic the guys seem to hit forty. Maybe. Mid thirties at least.
... and only in fanfic.
It's disheartening when all the heroes are younger. You hit a point where the stories havent got any suggestions.
... obviously the comic book suggestions can be unsuitable. 'Dress up as a bat' is seldom a socially appropriate solution. But 'channel your grief into making the world better' almost always is.
I dont know.
But I've been reading fanfic and having feels about it for the first time in A While.
Those feels just seem to be about Time and how there is so little and so much.
I am not so much liking any headline with a number in it, but, the ones about the vaccine are at least going in the right direction.
I have lately fallen into reading fic of Blue Beetle/Booster Gold, who I have been a fan of for so long they were on the cover of the first comic I remember buying. Canon has not always been kind to them. But in fanfic they get time to get older and cope with middle aged problems and just hang out with their friends, all of whom are alive for reasons that dont need exploring at this juncture. It's a big multiverse. Everybody lives.
It is a whole bunch of feels reading all of that. There is one I read last night where Beetle gets a heart operation and Booster looks after him. Another about that time Booster was on life support and Beetle looked after him. And one with a whole big argument about that time Superman died and the guys were both badly hurt.
... fanfic tends to add the comfort to the hurt/comfort equation canon starts.
I dont know why I'm finding it compelling to read about people the story dismissed as small time also rans having people sized problems with world shaking epic sized problems going on in the background.
... okay, phrased like that I maybe do.
It's kind of depressing when the chance to support each other through major surgery counts as a chance at happily ever after, but, *waves vaguely at canon*.
But then I really lost track of what canon thinks of them lately anyway. I mean I have 'Heroes in Crisis' but I dont know how it fits in with anything.
I feel like by now my fav characters should be, like, maybe fifty? Little bit less? Like they were always older than me but not older-older.
And then their next gens could be wearing the name because maybe the olders dont want to get beat up quite as often these days?
There could be a multi generation history and everyone growing into their own accomplishments without having to erase anyone else.
In fanfic the guys seem to hit forty. Maybe. Mid thirties at least.
... and only in fanfic.
It's disheartening when all the heroes are younger. You hit a point where the stories havent got any suggestions.
... obviously the comic book suggestions can be unsuitable. 'Dress up as a bat' is seldom a socially appropriate solution. But 'channel your grief into making the world better' almost always is.
I dont know.
But I've been reading fanfic and having feels about it for the first time in A While.
Those feels just seem to be about Time and how there is so little and so much.